2017: YEAR IN REVIEW

#YearInReview2017 – January 28th
•A day after President Trump signs the travel ban affecting seven Muslim-majority countries, confusion over how the order should be implemented results in chaos at airports across the U.S. pic.twitter.com/jASNKhau9T

#YearInReview2017 – February 11th
•North Korea conducts their first ballistic missile test during the Trump administration as President Trump hosts Japanese Prime Minister Abe at Mar-a-Lago pic.twitter.com/0wwpfizbfu

#YearInReview2017 – March 22nd
•A 52-year-old ISIS-inspired attacker carried out a vehicle and knife attack on London’s Westminster Bridge and at UK’s parliament, killing four and wounding about 50 others pic.twitter.com/g4GILNs9nB

#YearInReview2017 – April 6th
•President Trump ordered the United States military to launch 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles on an air base in western Syria in response to a suspected chemical-weapons attack by the Assad regime days earlier pic.twitter.com/2QFhf1a9aE

#YearInReview2017 – April 7th
•In a 54-45 vote, the Senate confirms Neil Gorsuch to be an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, filling the seat formerly held by the late Justice Antonin Scalia pic.twitter.com/dOaDAzMAXi

#YearInReview2017 – April 13th •The United States dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on an ISIS tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan. The 21,000-pound Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), also known as the "Mother of all Bombs," killed an estimated 36 ISIS militants pic.twitter.com/rW3YjMovAO

#YearInReview2017 – May 22nd
•A man known to British officials for links to radicalization detonated a suicide vest as people left an Ariana Grande Concert in Manchester, UK, killing 22 people including seven children pic.twitter.com/obDIkPSvjo

#YearInReview2017 - June 14th
•A gunman opened fire at a GOP Congressional baseball practice. Five people were wounded during the incident, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) pic.twitter.com/uhYLD5U7ZL

#YearInReview2017 – July 19th
•Republican Senator John McCain is diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain tumor. The tumor was found following an operation to remove a blood clot above his left eye. pic.twitter.com/3FWVaA7YZD

#YearInReview2017 – July 28th
•Capping another rollercoaster week, President Trump replaced embattled chief of staff Reince Priebus with DHS Secretary John Kelly, the decorated retired general who had been leading his administration’s charge on immigration enforcement. pic.twitter.com/IuSubZuZtb

#YearInReview2017 – July 28th
•Charlie Gard, an infant with a rare genetic condition known as mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, dies. Before his death, the British baby's parents fought a highly publicized court battle to treat him with an experimental approach in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/OVKg0jwYdS

#YearInReview2017 – September 10th
•Hurricane Irma makes U.S. landfall in the Florida Keys as a Category 4 storm, the strongest storm to hit the archipelago in 57 years. It marked the first time in a single year two Cat 4 storms have made landfall in the continental U.S. pic.twitter.com/DBGaDNA41Q

#YearInReview2017 – September 20th
•Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm, the third Category 4 storm to hit the U.S. in less than a month and the strongest to hit Puerto Rico since 1928. pic.twitter.com/ZIPeX2TQ9B

#YearInReview2017 - October 1st
•From the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, a shooter unleashed withering gunfire at the Route 91 Harvest music festival killing 58 and injuring 500+ in what is the deadliest shooting in U.S. history. pic.twitter.com/z5wmqvTlFI

#YearInReview2017 - October 8th
•Wildfires ripped through NoCal wine country in the deadliest fires in state history
•44 people would be killed
•Nearly 9,000 buildings destroyed
•Eventual $9 billion in residential, commercial, automobile and other property claims filed pic.twitter.com/Bfv7OmvM50

#YearInReview2017 - October 12th
•Freed: A Canadian-American couple and their three children who were held hostage by militants in Afghanistan for five years were safely rescued and released from captivity. pic.twitter.com/hpUZHZykzR

#YearInReview2017 - October 17th
•U.S.-backed Syrian forces announced that the Syrian city of Raqqa was liberated from ISIS fighters. The terror group seized the city on the banks of the Euphrates River in early 2014 and named it the capital of its self-styled "caliphate" pic.twitter.com/sTlXprxRc6

#YearInReview2017 - October 30th
•A federal grand jury in the Mueller investigation indicts former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates on 12 counts including conspiracy against the United States and money laundering pic.twitter.com/JB9icSaNsI

#YearInReview2017 - October 30th
•Unsealed court documents reveal that former Trump campaign foreign policy aide George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty in early Oct to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian officials and is cooperating with prosecutors in the Mueller probe pic.twitter.com/x1NPAL5Pcy

#YearInReview2017 – November 21st
•Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe resigned after 37 yrs. The authoritarian, who once declared that “only God will remove me,” left following mounting pressure from the military and parliament. At 93, he was the world’s oldest head of state. pic.twitter.com/KgK0yLsva9

#YearInReview2017- November 29th
•North Korea brought an end to a 72-day pause by launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of reaching the continental U.S. It's their third test of an ICBM and its most advanced. pic.twitter.com/SMBFoBbmOL

#YearInReview2017 – November 30th
•Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was found not guilty of murdering Kate Steinle on Pier 14 in San Francisco in July 2015 in a case that sparked a heated national debate over illegal immigration and so-called sanctuary cities. pic.twitter.com/DZcFOmyXPf

#YearInReview2017 - December 6th
•@POTUS formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of @Israel and announced intentions to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Presidents for 2+ decades have signed a waiver to delay moving the U.S. embassy in Israel. pic.twitter.com/XjmgbXiIXd

#YearInReview2017 - December 7th
•Yielding to a wave of pressure from other Democrats after new allegations of sexual misconduct, Senator Al Franken (D-Minn) announces he's resigning from Congress. pic.twitter.com/5EpoFOlgvp

#YearInReview2017 - December 9th
•Iraq formally declared its fight against ISIS over after 3 years of heavy combat and casualties
•ISIS has been driven from all the territory it once held inside Iraq
•At its peak, ISIS controlled nearly 1/3 of Iraq pic.twitter.com/UdEzZikmEd

#YearInReview2017 - December 17th
•Crypto-mania reached a fever pitch as Bitcoin hit an all-time high of $19,783. At this price point, the cryptocurrency was up more than 2,300% on the year. pic.twitter.com/Jg5a8bIDsP

#YearInReview2017 – December 20th
•Republican lawmakers celebrated their largest legislative achievement of 2017, after passing the most sweeping tax rewrite in decades. The bill was sent to President Trump’s desk without a single Democrat supporting the measure. pic.twitter.com/vcNVD0mUMT

#YearInReview2017- December 22nd
•President Trump signed the Republican tax bill into law, marking the administration’s first major legislative win since being elected into the White House. The $1.5 trillion tax overhaul is projected to bring tax cuts for most Americans in 2018 pic.twitter.com/j0qZc2e5wq

#YearInReview2017- December 22nd
•Three weeks after it began, the Thomas Fire became the largest wildfire in California's history, scorching over 273,000 acres of coastal foothills and national forest. The blaze killed one firefighter and destroyed more than 1,000 buildings. pic.twitter.com/GQPzlOj4Ad

#YearInReview2017- December 29th
→ The last day of trading ended a year of booming stock prices and positive returns:
•DJIA: Up 25.0%
•S&P: Up 19.4%
•Nasdaq: Up 28.2%
•Russell 2000: Up 13.1%
•Wilshire 5000: Up 18.6% pic.twitter.com/NlnPmEj2cY

#YearInReview2017- December 30th
•The wave of protests over Iran’s strained economy swept into a third day, this time into Tehran, with college students and others chanting against the hardline government. pic.twitter.com/a6RCXqWico

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